What dumb thing has taken you forever to realise?

[muchalover]

Nights in white satin song was playing in the car today. A favourite song of mine so I was singing along and it dawned on me that the word is "nights," not "knights".

Whole song makes much more sense now 😳

I had a similar issue with "Toyota, the car in front" but it's a Nissan I'm behind (or other car brand).

And in the film Winnie the Pooh where the gopher says "I'm not in the book" and I thought it was the phone book😬 for decades!

I promise I'm intelligent.

I thought it was "five hundred children, a dog and a seal" 😂😂

Also, my imaginary knights just kept on riding day and night, because they were never reaching the end! 😂

Yosemite used to be one of my favourite passwords, it caused all sorts of problems when I had to say it over the phone, I was often told it was wrong.

How is it pronounced? That's what it is in my head!! (I did open university and blame mispronunciation on that a LOT)

I thought he had dungarees... and had to look it up!

@WiddlinDiddlin That dandelion time lapse video is awesome thank you!

I thought meme was pronounced me-me for a long time. Thankfully I never said it out loud before I learned it was meem.

Oh my days! This has ruined my childhood, here's me thinking that the piggy going to market was going shopping. How did I not know!?

I always thought it was trampolines. My love has got no money he's got his trampolines.

Oh!! 😭

@Echio
Yo-seh-mutt-ee (I think!)

I’d always assumed it was Knights in White Satin - in my head it’s been a vague mish mash of troubadours, crusaders, Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood and ladies with the pointy hats and floaty veily bits. And now I find out that’s it’s just sleazy 1960s musos sweatily rolling round in slippery sheets on a circular bed on a shag pile carpet. And no doubt a mirror on the ceiling.

What a blended household 🤣

That peanuts grow underground and not on trees like walnuts , hazelnuts , chestnuts etc.

What!!?? Is that true?!

I thought the song was "500 children and a crappy old field ".

@DameCurlyBassey
pasted from my earlier post;
thunder is the sound the air makes as it rushes into the partial vacuum created by the lightning bolt (burns at 50000 degrees Fahrenheit, 3 times hotter than the sun) burning through the air it passes through. As the air cools it creates a partial vacuum, which makes the air rapidly expand and contract, basically the air column is a bit like a drum and the sound reverberates as a crack. As the vibrations gradually fade, this makes the rumbling noise that can linger.

Super Trouper beans are going to Blimey!
I had no idea where Blimey was (it sounded Irish to me), but the beans were definitely Heinz in my mind.

Omg

But I think it is 4 hungry children 🤣

If it makes you feel a bit better it was a fairly uncolourful world compared with today!

When I was a child and we went through Tipperary towards our holiday destination, I thought I had gone through a magical place that only existed in a song 🤣. Took me a few visits to realise that it's a real place.

I remember seeing ‘Pennsylvania’ on a car number plate in the US and proudly telling my dad, that’s where Dracula lives. He about died laughing

I'm splitting 😂

You-sem-itee